January 31, 1885

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Features

The Manufacture of Agglomerated Fuel

Improved Methods

Dropping and Striking Up

Butter Tub

Improved Shutter Worker

Belt Fastener

Burglar Alarm

Spirit Level

Combined Guard and Weeder

Improved Quadruple Pump

Detachable Shirt Bosom

A Simple Mode of Ascertaining the Revolutions of a Shaft

Weight Power Machine

The Mason Wasp

Agricultural Inventions - January 31, 1885

Miscellaneous Inventions - January 31, 1885

Engineering Inventions - January 31, 1885

Departments

Letters

Correspondence - January 31, 1885

Departments

Business and Personal - January 31, 1885

Notes and Queries - January 31, 1885

Index of Inventions - January 31, 1885

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